AI Article Synopsis

  • Primary splenic angiosarcoma (PSA) is a rare and aggressive cancer with limited treatment options, and there is little research on immunotherapy for this condition.
  • A case study reports a 57-year-old woman with metastatic PSA who achieved a complete response after receiving a combination of the PD-1 inhibitor toripalimab and the VEGF inhibitor anlotinib.
  • This case provides early evidence that combining anti-PD-1 and anti-VEGF therapies could be promising for treating metastatic PSA, but further clinical trials are necessary to confirm these findings.

Article Abstract

Primary splenic angiosarcoma (PSA) is a rare malignancy with poor prognosis. At present, little study is available on immunotherapy in PSA. Here, we report a case of a patient with metastatic PSA who was treated with programmed death-1 (PD-1) inhibitors and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) tyrosine kinase inhibitors combined therapy and achieved complete response (CR). The patient was a 57-year-old woman with three liver metastases. She was treated with seven cycles of toripalimab plus anlotinib. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) immunohistochemistry and next-generation sequencing was performed, and the PD-L1 tumor proportion score was 75%. Finally, she achieved CR after six cycles of the combined therapy regimen. No serious adverse events were detected. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first clinical evidence that anti-PD-1 plus anti-VEGF therapy might be a promising option for patients with metastatic PSA. However, more clinical trials are needed to verify this conclusion.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928100PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.809068DOI Listing

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